Social-media use by Islamic State and its supporters is creating a challenge for U.S. law enforcement, which is worried about the influence of online propaganda but is also exploiting reliance on the Internet to spot and track potential recruits.

With fresh warnings, statistics, slapstick comedy and a cartoon of President Xi Jinping whacking a tiger, China’s anti-corruption agents -- and their propaganda specialists -- are signaling that the fight against malfeasance took no break for the Lunar New Year.

North Korea is pulling out all the stops in a propaganda backlash against recent censure by a United Nations committee over its human rights abuses. On Tuesday, it held a rally in Pyongyang and showed leader Kim Jong Un visiting a museum dedicated to an alleged massacre by U.S. forces during the Korean War.

French police have questioned an 8-year-old and his father after the boy allegedly made comments in support of terrorists, part of a crackdown on extremist propaganda following the deadly attacks this month in Paris.

One of North Korean state media’s raisons d’être is to praise the country’s self-proclaimed status as a socialist paradise. A recent addition to the propaganda machine’s repertoire is a series on plastic surgery operations fully funded by the state.

China’s state broadcaster used one of its most tightly managed and overtly political Spring Festival galas in recent memory to deliver a message to the country’s 1.3 billion people on behalf of the Communist Party: Our hearts are yours.

The propaganda war over Ukraine has a new addition: a fake letter by International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde to Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk spurning the leader's alleged request for more cash.

A nine-hour Internet outage that shut off North Korea's major propaganda websites from the outside raises questions about the nature of North Korea's Internet, which while limited, gives the country one of its few direct connections to the outside world.